1.On the voting day, at 20:00, the chairperson of the precinct electoral commission shall announce about the end of the voting and prohibit the entry of electors into the voting room. The commission shall permit the electors present in the voting room to vote, after which the chairperson of the commission shall close the slot of the ballot box. 

2.The precinct electoral commission shall start the sitting for summarisation of voting results. Besides the persons having the right to be present at the sitting of the electoral commission, the candidate shall also have the right to be present at that sitting. 

The constituency electoral commission shall: 

(1)pack the individual seals of the commission members, and the package shall be sealed and placed in the sack; 

(2)count the total number of voting participants, based on the signatures of electors available in the list of electors. 

If available, the following shall also be counted separately: 

a.number of signatures available in the supplementary lists drawn up in the electoral precinct on the voting day; 

b.number of signatures available in the supplementary lists of electors having participated in the voting through the mobile ballot box. 

These figures shall be published and recorded in the registration book of the precinct electoral commission. 

The chairperson of the commission shall immediately inform, through available means of communication, the constituency electoral commission on the total number of voting participants in the electoral precinct. 

(3)where during the voting the technical equipment has worked without failures, a statement of information shall be printed by means of technical equipment, which includes the numbers of the constituency electoral commission and the electoral precinct, the record number of electors, registered by means of technical equipment, in the list of electors of the relevant electoral precinct. The statement of information must containan indication on the electors whose registration was carried out by inputting, using keyboard, the data on the identification document into the technical equipment.  

In case of impossibility to print the statement of information, a relevant record thereon shall be made in the registration book. 

One copy of the statement of information, signed by the chairperson of the precinct electoral commission and sealed with the seal of the commission, shall be placed in the sack. 

One copy of the statement of information, signed by the chairperson of the precinct electoral commission and sealed with the seal of the commission, shall, upon request, be given to the candidates, the observers and one proxy of each political party running in elections, present at the sitting for summarisation. 

The lists of electors (except for the signed lists of electors, being drawn up in a military unit, penitentiary institution and detention facilities) shall be packed, the package shall be sealed and signed by the chairperson and the secretary of the precinct electoral commission and be submitted to the constituency electoral commission as prescribed by part 9 of Article 71 of this Code. The signed lists of electors, being drawn up in a military unit, penitentiary institution and detention facilities, shall be packed separately, the package shall be sealed and placed in the sack; 

(4)one by one count voting passes, received from electors, printed by means of technical equipment and numbered, pack, seal the package and place in the sack; 

(5)count the unused self-adhesive stamps, pack, seal the package and place in the sack. 

(6)count the unused numbered voting passes, pack, seal the package and place in the sack. In case numbered voting passes are not used, they shall not be counted and the number of voting passes allocated by the constituency electoral commission shall be indicated; 

(7)without counting, pack the unused ballot papers, submit to the constituency electoral commission, as prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission. 

The results of these actions shall be published and recorded in the registration book of the precinct electoral commission.  

3.The chairperson of the commission shall open the ballot box, take one ballot envelope out of the ballot box, show it in such a way that it is visible to those present and shall take the ballot paper out of the ballot envelope. 

During elections of the National Assembly and elections of the Council of Elders of a community held through the proportional electoral system, the chairperson of the commission shall announce if the ballot paper is of established, non-established sample, valid, or invalid; in case the ballot paper is valid, [he or she] shall also announce the name of the political party running in elections in favour of whom or which a vote has been cast. It shall be shown in such a way that it is visible to those present. Upon request, the ballot paper shall be transferred to the other members of the commission. In case the member of the commission disagrees with the statement of the chairperson of the commission, he or she shall raise an objection. Where an objection is raised, the proposal of the member of the commission shall be put to voting and the ballot paper shall,pursuant to the decision on accepting the objection, and where the objection is not adopted or where there is no objection — pursuant to the statement of the chairperson of the commission, be put in the pile of ballot papers cast in favour of the relevant political party. This action shall be repeated with respect to all the envelopes in the ballot box. 

The ballot papers cast in favour of each political party running in elections, and the invalid ballot papers shall be sorted separately. 

After the ballot papers have been sorted and counted according to the ballot papers cast in favour of each political party running in elections, the results shall be announced out loud and recorded in the registration book of the precinct electoral commission.